I am going to merg contents of 4 RichTextBox in and RTF string in C#.
1- Do u know any good method not using clipboard?
2- Do you know any good reference for RTF?
Best wishes.

I would like to know about DLL and performance gain/penalty in an
application.  Let's say that I have a very big application and for
component portability and easy maintenance, we fragmented the
application in a numerous number of sub projects compiled as DLLs.  So

I need to load a XML into a string. Is it possible and how do I do it?
I have a database using ODBC (MS SQL, P.SQL, Oracle.....) where the XML
file is stored as a TEXT type. I can load this field as a string type.
But I need to load this into a "XML reader", do any changes with the

I want to write a msg messenger client. Is C# suitable for this? ot is C++
better for this?
Thanks.
Syed

Has anyone gotten the System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient to work with gmail?  In
.NET 1.1 I have it work with the Mentalis org thing but that has problems in
.NET 2.0.
Regards,

I need to read data from flat files in memory and execute SQL query on
the in-memory data. I do not have an option of using a database and I
am using c# .Net to build my application. Does anyone know whether it
is possible to make SQL query on datasets or on XML data for that

how I can a Guid field on Null setting (DATASET)

Are assemblies the same as libraries (i.e. C/C++ libraries)?. I know
they may have security attributes etc - but at a conceptual level, are
they a means of partitioning code into modular, logical units?

Hello.  I don't need full details, just a recommendation from experts.
I wrote a lot of Pre-ANSI K&R C programs but I'm not a C++ expert.  The
volume of C++ info available is daunting...  <g>
I am working on a project where a C# GUI program uses a number of non-.NET

Are there people developing on tools other than Visual Studio, say
SharpDevelop etc...? Or is Visual Studio _THE_ IDE for developing for the
.NET Framework? Just curious...
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In my application, I have a web browser control and load up a local
html page.  Within the html page, the following code exists.  However,
when I click on the button that invokes the 'form action', nothing
happens.  I'd like the event to spawn a new browser window.  Is there

I have a DataTable with one column.  How can I load that into an
XMLDocument object?  XMLDocument.Load() or LoadXML() will not take a
DataTable.
Thanks,

I am having this weird problem with FTP in C# 1.1.  I am using an open
source library for FTP connections,  and everything works fine all the
time except when i try to connect to one specific server.  This one
server will allow me to connect but when I request any data including a

I have a class called Manager. In the 'Initialize' method of the Manager
class, I create an instance of a COM class (say oComObject). What is the
lifetime of oComObject. Will it be available as long as the 'Manager' object
is in memory?

Hi NG,
I am working on a project in VS2005 that has to comunicate with an older
application, using MailSlots.
As far as I know, I have to use pInvoke to achieve this.